tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post5302978853250986285..comments2018-03-19T17:05:15.785+00:00Comments on Ed's Beer Site: Pseudo-craft sub-brandsEdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-45709829826145633492017-06-11T18:36:49.534+01:002017-06-11T18:36:49.534+01:00This is why the &#39;craft beer&#39; label needs t...This is why the &#39;craft beer&#39; label needs to be undertaken by pubs and bars with caution in this day and age. Stocking a variety of different productions and tastes will serve every craft beer vendor well - celebrate the diversity of craft beers rather than using it as a label to push more bottles!Tabithahttp://artigiano.uk.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-21314744841565454452017-05-30T21:59:12.872+01:002017-05-30T21:59:12.872+01:00Not sure you&#39;d find many beer geeks waxing lyr...Not sure you&#39;d find many beer geeks waxing lyrical about Robinson&#39;s Unicorn or Brain&#39;s SA, though. The number of trad beers they will enthuse about is pretty limited.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-70661377878523030132017-05-30T21:35:26.549+01:002017-05-30T21:35:26.549+01:00Harvey&#39;s Best and Fuller&#39;s ESB aren&#39;t ...Harvey&#39;s Best and Fuller&#39;s ESB aren&#39;t really the equivalent of Bud and Bud light though. There&#39;s definitely something going on with being proud of drinking the latter two. Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-55427794628240467112017-05-30T19:38:00.719+01:002017-05-30T19:38:00.719+01:00Beer geeks with a good word for Doom Bar are prett...Beer geeks with a good word for Doom Bar are pretty thin on the ground on either side of the craft / trad fence. You can&#39;t heave a half brick on Twitter without hitting some fresh faced young blogger in the middle of a paean to Harveys Sussex Best or Fullers ESB, though.DaveShttp://brewinabedsit.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-7625724767471010482017-05-30T12:38:00.783+01:002017-05-30T12:38:00.783+01:00I can&#39;t recall seeing anyone have a good word ...I can&#39;t recall seeing anyone have a good word for Doom Bar or GK IPA but I could have just missed it. I see your point about incognito-craft being aimed at more casual drinkers. I wonder what the sales figures are like? Given their proliferation probably good. Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-28459994685137015352017-05-30T12:26:29.780+01:002017-05-30T12:26:29.780+01:00I see plenty of craft beer geeks broadcasting thei...I see plenty of craft beer geeks broadcasting their love of &quot;mainstream&quot; cask, but meh, whatever. I don&#39;t think this has much to do with geeks anyway - they generally know their sub-brands well enough not to get fooled, and are a small market-segment anyway. The incognito-craft-brand routine seems to have a lot more to do with &quot;casual&quot; drinkers who don&#39;t know that much about craft beer but do know that it&#39;s apparently something that we&#39;re all supposed to like nowadays, and that what ever it is, Thwaites aren&#39;t it.DaveShttp://brewinabedsit.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-12060795761319224872017-05-27T22:36:51.016+01:002017-05-27T22:36:51.016+01:00Yes, it&#39;s on the wrong side of the aisle in Bo...Yes, it&#39;s on the wrong side of the aisle in Booths. Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-31325055085391167522017-05-27T22:36:12.836+01:002017-05-27T22:36:12.836+01:00Hmmm...some of the breweries now owned by multi-na...Hmmm...some of the breweries now owned by multi-nationals still do decent stuff if you ask me. Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13844169940650659196noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-52958021140633357992017-05-27T09:45:39.942+01:002017-05-27T09:45:39.942+01:00the thing is, mainstream lager is lush &amp; only ...the thing is, mainstream lager is lush &amp; only 50p a can. you&#39;d be a mug to neck owt else.Cooking Lagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830924433230427226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-54272010675232245092017-05-27T08:25:40.546+01:002017-05-27T08:25:40.546+01:00Fair points, but I can&#39;t agree. The customer i...Fair points, but I can&#39;t agree. The customer is happy to pay more because SOME of the craft beer they drink is incredibly delicious and they&#39;re always chasing that moment. <br /><br />Mass produced wine hasn&#39;t done anything to slow the growth of top end vineyards and I can&#39;t see that poorly made IPA&#39;s by huge brew co&#39;s will ever compete with, say, cloudwater IPA&#39;s on song. Oh and they definitely don&#39;t all taste the same. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-36950584374817340572017-05-27T05:40:53.372+01:002017-05-27T05:40:53.372+01:00Ease Up IPA is sold in a 500 ml bottle so is obvio...Ease Up IPA is sold in a 500 ml bottle so is obviously not proper craft.Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2558050635605413616.post-73675983707351632692017-05-26T09:58:18.442+01:002017-05-26T09:58:18.442+01:00It&#39;s all nonsense anyway. There are two types ...It&#39;s all nonsense anyway. There are two types of beer: the beer I like and the beer I don&#39;t. I generally don&#39;t like craft beer, especially at its normally inflated prices, because it all tastes the same. But many others do like it and it makes up a significant portion of the beer market so, obviously many &quot;traditional&quot; brewers are going to target it. They, just like &quot;craft&quot; brewers, want to make more profit by selling more of their beer and they will have noticed that the &quot;craft mark-up&quot; is larger than for cask or keg &quot;traditional&quot; beer mark-up.<br /><br />When old established family brewers and supermarkets are selling craft beer it is on the slippery slope to becoming mainstream and the price premium will slowly erode. After all it is only beer in the end. I wonder where craft brewers go then?mentaldentalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15226160741245530097noreply@blogger.com